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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“The magic you are looking for is in the work you’re attempting to avoid.” Dipen Parmar It’s College Football Season Eve. Currently enjoying a mild 90 degree afternoon here in the desert. It’ll be borderline cool by next Wednesday, and the lows will dip into the 50’s by the end of the week. I’m sure
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“The engineers and technocrats who design and manage these installations have, to some extent, become the victims of their own success.”- James Reason 1990 HUMAN ERROR Perfection. Who achieves it? Who embodies it? Or where is it evident in our current system? More simply, what is it? A simple definition from my Oxford dictionary says
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“If the planes weren’t flying, I’d resort to extending my thumb on the highway.”- Jon Huntsman, Sr BAREFOOT to BILLIONAIRE It was last year just about this time that I discovered the Edinboro Fighting Scots for the first time. Well, September 6th to be exact. It was late on a Friday night when I went
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
Coach “Do you like football?” Kid: No Coach “You ever played football?” Kid: No Coach: “You want to play football?” Kid: No. Coach: “Great you can be on our team.” “Little Giants” 1994 A brief peek. A 29 years young owner of a Barbershop in Australia decided that his athletic career was far from complete.
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“If you want to kick my ass, go ahead. Just explain to me why you are doing it.” “Ah, you wouldn’t be worth it.” “We’re all worth it, man…we’re all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.” River Phoenix to a gang of Gainesville skinheads at party in 1989 The Aer Lingus
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“When the Scotch House closed they went round to Mulligan’s. They went into the parlour at the back and O’Halloran ordered small hot specials all round. They were all beginning to feel mellow.”- James Joyce DUBLINERS It’s game Week Zero or 1A or whatever someone wants to call it. Who cares. It’s five days before
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. But, we do know what the Greeks knew–that intelligence and skill can
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
It feels like Arsenal just ended the season last month, yet here we are kicking off another Premier League season. There are certainly some easier grounds on which to begin the season than Old Trafford but getting such a tough road game out of the way early is a benefit. Arsenal has another strong squad
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“It’s so damn hot. Milk was a bad choice.”- Ron Burgandy You know? I’m probably considered world class in at least one thing–making the most enticing cup of coffee and forgetting it on the counter. It’s happened three times this week, and I must say, it’s not my favorite thing in the world to do.
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Welcome to Single High Sports
A dose of sports to curb the workday boredom
“I feel like I no longer fit in with these times.”- Calvin Coolidge 1932 Utah High School Football season is beginning tonight. It feels nothing like fall and everything like a Laird Hamilton sauna, but football is back, even if it’s only back in the smallest of ways. Before football comes all the way back,